DIY Geo Apps MOOC "Ask Me Anything" Event

CandaceLoya · ‎09-04-2018

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Wednesday, September 19, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PDT)

Join our DIY Geo Apps MOOC guests here on the GeoNet Community for a LIVE AMA (Ask Me Anything) event. The AMA will take place in this discussion thread on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PDT). Click HERE to convert exact time for different countries.

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John Shramek‌

Derek Law‌

John Gravois‌

Rupert Essinger‌

Ian Wittenmyer‌

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KNOWLEDGEMATHABA1 · ‎09-07-2018

Good Day

I kindly request your assistance to have a detailed brake-down architecture functionality of the Building Plans Apps/software or Building plans module that you offer to clients/municipality that requires to have a platform were the public can submit their building plans online and get it circulated within the municipality's relevant departments to have their comment on the plans until to the approval stage were automatically the client gets feed back on all stages of his/her building plan application.

The architecture of the software I mean the platform that could make it functional, for example, ArcGIS server, or stand alone application within municipal servers, and any other technical functionality of Building Plans Apps/software that you know .e.c.t.

I request to know the architecture because i am interested in making Geo-Apps that could make life easy for the public to submit any Development applications to the municipality, and the municipality to quickly process the applications.

JohnGravois · ‎09-19-2018

Hey Knowledge!

I'm not sure what 'Building Plans' you're talking about. Perhaps the Local Government Plans and Drawings Solution?

if so, the link i shared includes the software requirements. it uses either ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Server and optionally ArcGIS Pro.

KNOWLEDGEMATHABA1 · ‎09-28-2018

Hi John.

I get to understand your response, but i guess we are operating on different country laws.

What i was referring to is what is done in South Africa, whereby as a citizen in a Town, and you want to build your house or any form of structure, you are required by the local government to submit the drawings of your house or structure, therefore after you submitted, the local government takes the drawing and circulate it to different local government sections such as Land Use section to check Zoning rights for the structure you want to build, Another section such as Technical services checks for water and sanitation connection to the property for your house/structure, Another section such as Finance department checks for any dept associated with the property you want to build on, Therefore if all the local government sections gives a tick that the owner and the property have no errors, they approve your building or drawings to begin building your house.

Therefore, what i was asking you is, do you have any software or anyway platform you can suggest were the process of submitting the building house plans /drawings to the local government and have the plans to circulate in the local government sections electronically until to the point where they approve the drawings.

Regards

Knowledge

JohnGravois · ‎09-28-2018

> do you have any software or anyway platform you can suggest
i haven't heard of one. sounds like a great idea for a custom application.

KNOWLEDGEMATHABA1 · ‎10-01-2018

I thought ESRI might have developed such an application platform. As for myself i haven't seen any software that could execute the functions already said. So i will keep checking on the market maybe someone might have it.

JamesLong · ‎09-07-2018

I'm curious to know the path to learn more about adding a little more functionality to the Web Apps such as:

Generating the next number in a series (Such as an Asset ID)
Launching Survey123 from within an app
Linking items together automatically such as a building and assets contained within/near it.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

DerekLaw · ‎09-19-2018

Hi James,

For these 2 questions,

Generating the next number in a series (Such as an Asset ID)

This is a bit vague and I'm not clear on what you're asking exactly. Can you please elaborate? For example, do you mean when preparing data for the web? E.g., When you create a new feature class powering a feature service, the item ID is automatically generated as new features are added. Or do you mean within a web app? If so, which app? Perhaps you could describe your workflow in more detail?

Linking items together automatically such as a building and assets contained within/near it.

Are you asking about setting up a relationship class between different layers of data? or something else? Before you publish a web service? or within a web app? Again, can you please elaborate in more detail your workflow and what you want to do?

> Launching Survey123 from within an app

There are some great resources for this question, please see this blog
https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2016/07/30/understanding-survey123s-custom-url-sche...

and also the help documentation,

Integrate with other apps—Survey123 for ArcGIS | ArcGIS

Hope this helps,

FaizaAhmed · ‎09-11-2018

I am debating between completing a diploma in GIS or a Masters. the field of GIS is ever expanding and I feel as I try to catch up, things move 10x more forward and so many tools are becoming automated. I would like to know;

Where do you see the future of GIS and GIS professionals?

Also, do you think underground 3D mapping will be happening soon (or is already happening)?

Will ESRI expand to other nations (south asia and asia specifically becausee these places have a more diverse topography in short distances)?

Thanks in advance,

Faiza

Anonymous User · ‎09-19-2018

Hi Faiza,

First of all, congratulations on thinking about getting more education, that’s rarely a bad idea! I see GIS continuing this path toward automation, for sure. This has been going on for years, and GIS Analyst/Specialist jobs I see now almost always want you to have some level of knowledge about scripting or other programming. It’s just a fact; GIS is computer-based, so it goes well together with any other software that allows it to work better or faster. However, I don’t think the need for people who understand GIS and what is behind the scenes, like geodesy, coordinate systems, data editing and manipulation, etc. will ever go away.

As for 3D underground, that’s useful and is already happening, as with buried utilities networks. If you have a local scene in ArcGIS Pro (as opposed to global), for example, you can tilt to see what’s underground.

Lastly, Esri is in most of the nations on the planet in some form or another. We may not offer as much data in some areas, usually because of what has been created, and how it’s shared (or not).